Tirohanga, Lower Hutt

983 days ago

Rocking chair refresh

The Team from Resene ColorShop Lower Hutt

Refresh and restore a beautiful old rocking chair with a simple but stylish new look with Resene Enamacryl.

Find out how to create your own.

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984 days ago

Way Back Wednesday

Reporter Community News

Where is this and have you ever been there?

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984 days ago

Eastern Bays Shared Path named

Hutt City Council

The EBSP project has been gifted the name Tupua Horo Nuku by Kura Moeahu of Te Ati Awa Taranaki Whānui in a celebration of the project’s cultural narrative on 24 February.

The name is part of the Tupua narrative being infused with other projects around the Harbour and Valley. It tells the … View more
The EBSP project has been gifted the name Tupua Horo Nuku by Kura Moeahu of Te Ati Awa Taranaki Whānui in a celebration of the project’s cultural narrative on 24 February.

The name is part of the Tupua narrative being infused with other projects around the Harbour and Valley. It tells the story of Ngake, one of the two tupua who created Te Whanganui-a-Tara and Te Awa Kairangi in traditional narrative.

The path will connect communities in the Eastern Bays with a new walking and cycling route, and provide more resilient seawalls on Marine Drive, the area’s only road access.
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984 days ago

Hutt Homed- Out Now!

Jessica Zimmerman Reporter from Hutt Homed

Our House of the Week this week has been designed with entertainment in mind, it features a wrap around deck with a concrete fire place, spa pool, and bi-fold doors that offer flow from the kitchen/dining to the outside. This three-bedroom Petone house could be your dream home, and is for sale … View moreOur House of the Week this week has been designed with entertainment in mind, it features a wrap around deck with a concrete fire place, spa pool, and bi-fold doors that offer flow from the kitchen/dining to the outside. This three-bedroom Petone house could be your dream home, and is for sale through Shane Brockelbank at Professionals. Check it out in today's edition of Homed.

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984 days ago

Happy St Patrick's Day!

The Team from NZ Compare

Today is a perfect time to stop and enjoy the company of your neighbours, friends and family!

The team at NZ Compare wish you all good health, good luck and happiness for 2022.

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984 days ago

The Antidote: Five happy things to read about

The Team Reporter from Stuff

A toy bunny lost and then left on top of a skip after the anti-mandate occupation at Parliament has been reunited with its owner, thanks to social media.

Richard Falkner, who works in central Wellington, found the soiled Peter Rabbit toy on top of a water tank used as a makeshift bin at Aitken St … View more
A toy bunny lost and then left on top of a skip after the anti-mandate occupation at Parliament has been reunited with its owner, thanks to social media.

Richard Falkner, who works in central Wellington, found the soiled Peter Rabbit toy on top of a water tank used as a makeshift bin at Aitken St last week, before taking it home and giving it a clean. Read more here.

We live in unusual times. It all gets a bit much some days. So each weekday we're bringing you a much-needed dose of positivity to remind you that there's inspiration, kindness and quirkiness out there too. Sign up here to get The Antidote delivered direct to your inbox.

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984 days ago

Breast cancer survivor's ride to good health

Reporter Community News

Breast cancer survivor Janet Petter is cycling the length of New Zealand to raise money for breast cancer research, and hopes to inspire others going through the illness not to give up.
The Hutt based nurse battled through “nine months of gruelling treatment” that it took her two years to … View more
Breast cancer survivor Janet Petter is cycling the length of New Zealand to raise money for breast cancer research, and hopes to inspire others going through the illness not to give up.
The Hutt based nurse battled through “nine months of gruelling treatment” that it took her two years to recover.
But she had a second wind following her diagnosis and double mastectomy, and hopes her story will encourage others.
To support Petter go to takeaction.org.nz/page/janets3000kmjourneybikingnz

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984 days ago

Annual Charity Partner 2022/23

Shona McFarlane Retirement Village

APPLICATIONS CLOSING SOON!

Supporting fellow pioneers isn’t new. It’s in our DNA. Since 1999, our residents and team members have raised more than $5 million for charities across New Zealand and Australia.

Learn more about becoming our charity partner for 2022/23.

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984 days ago

St Patrick's Day

NumberWorks'nWords Lower Hutt

17 March is Saint Patrick’s Day. It is the day when Irish communities around the world celebrate their culture with music, dancing, parades, and traditional food and drinks.

May the luck of the Irish be with you! Enjoy your day!

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985 days ago

Get decorating and save with Resene!

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Get 20% off Resene premium products at Resene ColorShops and participating resellers:

- Paints
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Get 20% off Resene premium products at Resene ColorShops and participating resellers:

- Paints
- Wood stains
- Primers
- Sealers
- Decorating accessories
- Wallpaper
- Cleaning products

Discounts off the normal retail price of Resene premium paints, wood stains, primers, sealers, decorating accessories, wallpaper and cleaning products until 26 April 2022. Available only at Resene owned ColorShops and participating resellers or shop online. For details see 20% off sale.
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1001 days ago

WHITE MEDIUM TO LARGE DOG FELL OFF UTE BETWEEN PETONE AND WELLINGTON. MAYBE BE INJURED. DID YOU WITNESS THIS?

Sharon from Normandale

Roze Mackintosh
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Our dog went missing off the back of my old man truck yesterday arvo , outside the warehouse in Petone Wellington , if any sightings pls contact me know he is injured and needs his meds !

Update : Soo I had the wrong info sorry my dad said someone… View more
Roze Mackintosh
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Our dog went missing off the back of my old man truck yesterday arvo , outside the warehouse in Petone Wellington , if any sightings pls contact me know he is injured and needs his meds !

Update : Soo I had the wrong info sorry my dad said someone loosened his cage on the truck outside the warehouse and he fell off the truck in his cage 😔 on the moterway from petone to wellington … when they got back around to the cage he was gone . Sorry for the miss information but currently still missing !

986 days ago

Why Clothes Are So Hard to Recycle

Robert Anderson from Curtain Clean (The Curtain Store)

Fast fashion is leading to a mountain of clothing being thrown away each year and has a huge impact on the environment, so can we turn our unwanted garments into something useful?

Open your wardrobe and be honest. How long was it since you last wore some of those clothes? Do you think it might … View more
Fast fashion is leading to a mountain of clothing being thrown away each year and has a huge impact on the environment, so can we turn our unwanted garments into something useful?

Open your wardrobe and be honest. How long was it since you last wore some of those clothes? Do you think it might be time for a clear out?

Languishing in the back of cupboards and bottom of drawers are outfits that don’t fit any more, items that have gone out of fashion, or even clothes that have never been worn. In fact, according to research conducted by sociologist Sophie Woodward at the University of Manchester, on average 12% of clothes in the wardrobes of women she studied could be considered “inactive”.

If you were brutal, you’ll probably manage to fill a bin-bag or two with clothes you no longer want or need. But what then?

Around 85% of all textiles thrown away in the US – roughly 13 million tonnes in 2017 – are either dumped into landfill or burned. The average American has been estimated to throw away around 37kg of clothes every year. And globally, an estimated 92 million tonnes of textiles waste is created each year and the equivalent to a rubbish truck full of clothes ends up on landfill sites every second. By 2030, we are expected as a whole to be discarding more than 134 million tonnes of textiles a year.

Millions of tonnes of clothing, shoes and other textiles end up in landfill every year because very little is sent for recycling.

“The current fashion system uses high volumes of non-renewable resources, including petroleum, extracted to produce clothes that are often used only for a short period of time, after which the materials are largely lost to landfill or incineration,” says Chetna Prajapati, who studies ways of making sustainable textiles at Loughborough University in the UK.
“This system puts pressure on valuable resources such as water, pollutes the environment and degrades ecosystems in addition to creating societal impacts on a global scale.”

There are good reasons to seek out alternatives to chucking clothes in the bin – globally the fashion industry is responsible for 10% of all greenhouse gas emissions, with textile production alone is estimated to release 1.2 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere every year. Vast amounts of water are also needed to produce the clothes we wear too and the fashion industry is responsible for 20% of global waste water. (Read more about the impact our fashion addiction has on the planet.)

At the same time we are buying more clothes than ever – the average consumer now buys 60% more clothing than they did 15 years ago. More than two tonnes of clothing are bought each minute in the UK, more than any other country in Europe. Globally, around 56 million tonnes of clothing are bought each year, and this is expected to rise to 93 million tonnes by 2030 and 160 million tonnes by 2050.

Globally just 12% of the material used for clothing ends up being recycled.
Keep reading: www.curtainclean.co.nz...

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987 days ago

Do you know anyone who lives in or near Island Bay?

Predator Free Wellington

Kia ora neighbours,

We are looking for residents in Island Bay and Ōwhiro Bay to sign up their household to be part of our phase 2 eradication project.

Our team will be working in Island Bay, and Ōwhiro Bay over the next few weeks, encouraging households to sign up to be part of our … View more
Kia ora neighbours,

We are looking for residents in Island Bay and Ōwhiro Bay to sign up their household to be part of our phase 2 eradication project.

Our team will be working in Island Bay, and Ōwhiro Bay over the next few weeks, encouraging households to sign up to be part of our project, with installations and servicing to begin later once our Miramar Peninsula eradication is finished.

If you know anyone living in Island Bay or Ōwhiro Bay please encourage them to sign up to our project. It's Free and the devices will be Fully Serviced by our team.

Sign up now online - and please spread the word with your friends and neighbours!
Find out more

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989 days ago

Aroha Pataka Naenae 'WHO gives and receives'

Sandra from Normandale

Would like to nominate Aroha Pataka Naenae for a Council Award.
Need letters of support from people involved with giving and receiving.
I make and donate crochet blankets, linen and food.
I have the forms....contact me please with your story and details.

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987 days ago

Pi Day

NumberWorks'nWords Lower Hutt

Pi Day is on March 14, and any day that combines fun, education, and pie is a day worth celebrating! Pi, also known by the Greek letter “π,” is a constant value used in math that represents the ratio of a circumference of a circle to its diameter, which is just about 3.14….15…9265359… … View morePi Day is on March 14, and any day that combines fun, education, and pie is a day worth celebrating! Pi, also known by the Greek letter “π,” is a constant value used in math that represents the ratio of a circumference of a circle to its diameter, which is just about 3.14….15…9265359… (and so on). Not only that, but the fourteenth of March is also Albert Einstein’s birthday, so all together it’s nothing short of a mathematician’s delight.

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